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eMOLT Update 2025-12-12
Weekly Recap
For the last week and change, I was out to sea supporting the Bottom
Trawl Survey aboard the NOAA Ship Henry B. Bigelow, so the update will
be pretty short. We still haven’t caught up with all of the new boats
that joined the program over the shutdown and while I was at sea, so I
appreciate your patience if your data haven’t showed up in the portal
yet.
This week, the eMOLT fleet recorded 180 tows of sensorized fishing
gear totaling 2064 sensor hours underwater.

Figure 1 – FISHBOT bottom temperature records from the past week.
The data are available on the Commercial
Fisheries Research Foundation ERDDAP and an interactive
visualization is available at the Cape Cod Ocean Watch
dashboard hosted by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. FISHBOT
aggregates data provided by participants in eMOLT, the CFRF Lobster and
Jonah Crab Research Fleet, the CFRF Shelf Research Fleet, the Cape Cod
Commercial Fishermen’s Alliance Cape Cod Oceanographic Research Fleet,
the Maine Coast Fishermen’s Association Fisheries Ocean Data Program,
MassDMF Cape Cod Bay Study Fleet, the Northeast Fisheries Science Center
Study Fleet, and the Northeast Fisheries Science Center Ecosystem
Monitoring Surveys
Regional Dissolved Oxygen Loggers
We will be organizing ways to return the dissolved oxygen loggers
over the next few weeks. For vessels on Cape Cod or the South Shore,
we’ll try to pick the sensors up from you. For vessels up in Maine or
down in New Jersey, we’ll send you a prepaid shipping label so you can
send them back for recalibration and battery replacement.
Disclaimer
The eMOLT Update is NOT an official NOAA document. Mention of
products or manufacturers does not constitute an endorsement by NOAA or
Department of Commerce. The content of this update reflects only the
personal views of the authors and does not necessarily represent the
views of NOAA Fisheries, the Department of Commerce, or the United
States.
All the best,
-George
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